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...protein secreted by the liver in response to inflammation, and over the past several years it has become apparent to experts that inflammation is a big part of heart disease. CRP seems to play a role in damaging artery walls, making them more prone to the buildup of fatty plaques that can rupture and block the vessels that feed the heart. Sure enough, studies have shown that high CRP levels, signaling active inflammation, are associated with heart problems...
...combined inspections of Dunster and Mather dining halls, which share a kitchen, found 13 total violations, the highest number in the College and up from six violations last April. Though problems over the past two years have included rust in the ice machine, scum buildup and keeping raw meat too close to food that’s ready to be served, this fall’s were relatively minor. They included missing labels on containers, a broken salad bar light and no thermometer in the refrigerator...
Four years after Florida, the buildup to this year’s Presidential election was clouded by the fear that problems with electronic and paper ballots would disenfranchise voters throughout the nation...
...membership. Bush will also have to keep a spotlight on the Chinese policy of pegging its currency, the renminbi, to the U.S. dollar. The Bush Administration has criticized Beijing for keeping its currency artificially undervalued, making Chinese-made products more competitive and investment in China more attractive. "The buildup of the deficit with China is becoming very serious," says Charles Chang, managing partner of investment consulting firm Accolade Inc. in Seoul. "The next President has to continue the effort to relax control of the renminbi...
...America's cold war policies toward the Soviet Union; in Washington. Erudite, brash and sometimes irritable, he worked for Presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan, helping to instigate the postwar Marshall Plan and, in 1950, writing a key paper that urged a U.S. economic and military buildup to "frustrate the Kremlin design of a world dominated by its will." Yet this early cold warrior became better known for his later efforts at conciliation, most notably a famous "walk in the woods" near Geneva, Switzerland, in 1982 with his Soviet counterpart in an attempt to break an arms-control...